Conscience Quotes

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I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more… — Jim Doyle
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date… — Lion Feuchtwanger
There's so few people in this town with a conscience. — Blake Edwards
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience. — Caspar Weinberger
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole,… — Bernard Cornwell
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience. — Victor Hugo
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United… — J. William Fulbright
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. — Diane Abbott
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. — Ken Calvert
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'. — Adolf Hitler
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. — Anne Hutchinson
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but… — J C Ryle
If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world. — Raphael Lemkin
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the… — Ravi Zacharias

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